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Benyamin and Naomi (nee Kohan) Amrami (Crown Heights)
KSCVK and Devorah Benjamin will be hosting their annual auction on Sunday, May 25th. Will you be coming in person?
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Carrying forward the legacy of Reb Shmuel Moshe Hakohen Benjamin A”H
New Engagement!
Mendy Alexander (Crown Heights) and Chaya (bas Eli) Cohen (Crown Heights)
‘Our Big Kitchen’ Inducted Into Hall of Fame
At a packed function of about 800 people at Sydney’s Dalton House, Our Big Kitchen has been inducted into the Hall of Fame in recognition of its Community Service by Restaurant and Catering Australia.
Alternate Side Parking Suspended Thursday-Friday
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Thursday and Friday, September 25-26, for Rosh Hashanah. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe saying the after-blessing after distributing Kos Shel Bracha.
Volunteers to Spend Their High Holidays in Prison
Anna Koozmin, a 20-year-old sophomore at the University of Maryland, loves the popular Netflix series about a woman’s prison for the way it delves into the back stories and lives of inmates at a federal women’s prison. Now she is about to find out for herself what the place is like—at least for a day.
Chabad Delegation Meets with IDF Chief of Staff
A delegation of Chabad Chassidim met with the chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces, Lt. General Benny Gantz ahead of the upcoming holiday of Rosh Hashana. A new Sefer Torah, being written in merit of the soldiers serving in the IDF, had its first letters filled in by the Lt. General.
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Peretz and Mussie (nee Weingarten) Wolowik (Crown Heights)
Video: Joy in Challenging Times
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Ha’azinu. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can one be joyous in challenging times? A bonus video on what one should meditate on when hearing the Shofar on Rosh Hashanah is presented in the extended article.
New Engagement!
Ariel Stern (Beit Shemesh, Israel) and Mushky Shanowitz (Montreal, Canada)
Letter & Spirit: Faith Makes Us Feel Secure
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter of the Rebbe in which he explains the idea of hashgocho protis as we see it in the 27th Perek of Tehillim – “L’Dovid H’ Ori,” which we say during Elul and most of Tishrei. The letter was written through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by his son-in-law Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
Baby Girl!
Boruch and Libby (nee Perl) Losh (Crown Heights)
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Shneur and Devorah Leah (nee Gitlin) Hirsch (Crown Heights)
Crown Heights Carjacker Indicted; Faces 25 Years
A 29-year-old Queens man has been indicted by Brooklyn’s D.A. for an armed carjacking that he allegedly committed on the corner of Eastern Parkway and Utica Ave. in Crown Heights this summer.
Picture of the Day: Chabad in Uman
Among the tens of thousands of Jews who made the pilgrimage to Uman, Ukraine to spend Rosh Hashanah near the burial place of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov was a group of Lubavitcher Chassidim. A ‘Chabad House’ with a Nusach Ari minyan was set up for their convenience.
Chabad Lawsuit Reinstated Against CT Town
A federal appeals court has reinstated a Chabad rabbi’s lawsuit accusing the Litchfield Historic District Commission of religious discrimination when it rejected plans for a synagogue in 2007.
